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Kaiser Permanente workers speak ahead of potential strike

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:31:22 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) — The largest nonprofit private healthcare provider in both Colorado and the U.S. could be missing some workers later this week. Union workers at Kaiser Permanente are threatening to go on strike Wednesday unless an agreement to alleviate staffing shortages is met.The parties have less than two days to agree on a contract before workers go on strike. Workers told FOX31 they do not feel like the company is hearing them out. Officer kills man at Westminster apartments after days of repeat police visits "At this point, everything is on the table, and it's up to Kaiser to come to the table with some agreements our members can take back home," said Stephanie Felix-Sowy, the President of SEIU Local 105."We represent 8,000 members in Colorado — 3,000 of those members are Kaiser Permanente frontline healthcare workers," Felix-Sowy said.Kaiser Permanente workers want staffing solutionShe said members of a national coalition of Kaiser Permanente unions have been working on con...

Search continues for man missing in Rocky Mountain National Park

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:31:22 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) -- The search for a hiker missing out of Rocky Mountain National Park continued Sunday, with 55 people involved in rescue efforts.Chad Pallansch, 49, of Fort Collins, was reported missing on Thursday, Sept. 28. He started from the East Inlet Trailhead near Grand Lake on Wednesday. He was last heard from around noon Wednesday, and his car was found parked at the north inlet trailhead of the park.Pictures from the search show a 38-member team scaling cliffs and other areas near Black Lake, Stone Man Pass and area canyons. Helicopters and dog teams are also providing support. Search underway for person missing in Chatfield Reservoir He planned a 28-mile route that included established trails and some off-trail travel through steep talus slopes, according to an RMNP spokesperson.Pallansch had not attempted the route previously but is an experienced trail runner, who has run a number of routes in the park, including Longs Peak over 30 times.He was described as being ...

Powerball jackpot hits $1.04B: What a winner would actually get in Colorado

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:31:22 GMT

(NEXSTAR) — The Powerball jackpot has continued rolling, hitting an estimated $1.04 billion ahead of Monday night's drawing. Despite its record-setting size, a winner won't become an instant billionaire. Powerball players have been watching the jackpot grow since mid-July when yet another record jackpot worth $1.08 billion was hit by a ticket sold in California. Without a winner on Monday, the current jackpot could easily surpass that yet-to-be-claimed jackpot. What happens to unclaimed lottery tickets in Colorado? Regardless, the current jackpot stands as the fourth-largest in Powerball history, and the ninth-largest lottery draw game prize in the U.S.Don't be deceived by its massive size: If you beat the overwhelming odds and win the Powerball jackpot, you'll be taking home far less than $1.04 billion. Here's why. Powerball payoutsPowerball jackpot winners can either receive their payout as annuitized payments or a lump sum. The first is represented by the big, flashy number of ...

Man arrested for antisemitic disturbance at Sunny Isles Beach synagogue service; Rabbi speaks out

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:31:22 GMT

A man was arrested for disrupting a Shabbat service using antisemitic language towards synagogue-goers in Sunny Isles Beach, officials said. According to officials, Yudel Antonio Herrero, 47, stood outside King David Chabad and used a shofar (ram’s horn) to disrupt the worshipers’ prayers on Saturday. Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle and Sunny Isles Beach Police Chief Edward Santiago made the announcement Monday. “There is no place in our community, or any community, for those who revel in spouting hate,” said Fernandez Rundle. “Individuals who feel that they have license to desecrate the religious ceremonies and sentiments of Shabbat services and to desecrate the Holiday of Sukkot are in for a surprise. Neither my prosecutors, the Sunny Isles Beach Police Department nor the law enforcement community of Miami-Dade County will allow that to happen.”Herrero was arrested on Sunday and has been charged with disturbing a school or r...

Demolish building over drywall?

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:31:22 GMT

In 2015, two brothers replaced a piece of drywall in an apartment they own. Seven years later, the city sent them a notice that ended with the order to demolish the property. Is that legal? It’s why they called Help Me Howard with Patrick Fraser.Forty years ago, the Browns’ parents bought this property in Liberty City. It’s seen some changes.Hernando Brown Jr.: “Previously, it’s been a cleaners on one side, a restaurant on the other side.”Today, it houses a church and four apartments, if its allowed to stand.Hernando Brown Jr.: “The building is to be apparently demolished because it is unsafe.”The trouble began back in 2015 when water from a second floor air conditioner started running inside the wall instead of outside. A wet piece of drywall on the first floor ceiling fell.Barry Brown: “So I’m with the my truck. Got a piece of drywall, put it back up.”In 2015, the city posted a notice that the Browns needed to pull ...

Police arrest 50-year-old man accused of driving onto sidewalk to argue with kids in Homestead

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:31:22 GMT

A man is in custody after going on a dangerous drive in a South Florida neighborhood.Cellphone video captured on Thursday showed a man in a pickup truck driving up on the sidewalk and grass in the Leeward Isles Community after, police said, he got into an argument with a group of kids on bikes.No one was hit and the driver took off.Authorities later arrested 50-year-old Rafael Fernandez and was charged with aggravated assault with a motor vehicle.Fernandez Monday evening bonded out of jail.

Debbie Gibson shares experience at FOX’s Celebrity ‘Name that Tune’

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:31:22 GMT

Guessing the names of songs from the 80’s and 90’s is a piece of cake, especially if they’re one of Debbie Gibson’s songs.Speaking of Debbie, the 80’s icon is taking her chance on FOX’s “Name That Tune” and now she’s opening up about her time on the show.Debbie Gibson on “Name that Tune”: “I can name that tune.”It’s a celebrity face-off between Debbie Gibson and Belinda Carlisle on “Name That Tune.”Debbie Gibson: “We both love the competitive spirit, but we’re friends. So it was really just a whole joyful experience.”Debbie hopes to use any prize money for the actors’ fund home, a charity near to her heart.Debbie Gibson: “My late, great mama, Diane, who managed my career for 25 years, and I lost her a little over a year ago, about a year and a half ago now. She spent her final months to a year. It was like, I don’t know, something like eight months at t...

Rishi Sunak’s rebellious army

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:31:22 GMT

MANCHESTER, England — Rishi Sunak is trying to convince the British public the Tories have a clear and unified plan to stay in power. His less-than-loyal troops have their own ideas.With an election due next year, the U.K. prime minister — who faces a pivotal moment with his first conference speech as party leader Wednesday — might have hoped a shared fear of annihilation at the polls might encourage his fractious party to unite behind a common cause.“I have a good sense of what the British people’s priorities are. I’m going to set about delivering for them,” Sunak optimistically told the BBC on Sunday as his party conference kicked off.But singing from the same hymn sheet as the leader is not high on the agenda for a significant number of Tory MPs.In every corner of the cavernous conference center in Manchester, senior Tories were popping up on Monday to tout their own ideas about the best direction of the party.Such clear signs of division are not good news for the prime minister....

Germany bewildered about how to halt the rise of the AfD

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:31:22 GMT

Markus Ziener is a senior visiting fellow with the German Marshal Fund in Berlin.In Germany, news regarding the seemingly unstoppable rise of the right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) appears on an almost weekly basis. But nowadays this isn’t just true of the notoriously AfD-friendly states in east Germany, it’s also spreading further west.In Saxony, Thuringia and Brandenburg, the AfD is currently running well above 30 percent. The party is gaining ground in the former West German states of Hesse and Bavaria as well, where it is expected to land at around 15 percent in this weekend’s elections.Once labeled as only appealing to the marginal far right, today the AfD has become acceptable to significantly more voters. And although polls aren’t election results, they are sending shock waves through the German political landscape.At regional and local levels, it is now becoming increasingly difficult to successfully form coalitions against AfD candidates. In Sonneberg, a district in s...

Ukraine puts on brave face as West goes wobbly

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:31:22 GMT

The West’s united front on Ukraine is showing more cracks than ever — and Kyiv has little choice but to grin and bear it.More than 500 days into Russia’s full-scale invasion, Republican lawmakers in Washington DC on Saturday derailed an effort to unleash a major tranche of aid for the war-torn country.Coming just nine days after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy visited Washington to plead for continued support, the blockage underscored a hardening of attitudes among congressional Republicans who want to end Washington’s assistance for Kyiv.At the same time as Republicans were voting ‘no’ on Capitol Hill, voters in Slovakia elected a pro-Russian prime minister, Robert Fico, who vows not to send a “single round” of ammunition to Ukraine, and looks set to team up with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbàn to oppose further European support for Kyiv. Poland, once the most dependable of Kyiv’s allies, made the shock announcement on S...